The first major fictional cinematic film exploring travel in outer space was titled Le Voyage dans la Lune, made in 1902

Galileo Galilei, 1564 to 1642. "Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician ... his discoveries with the telescope revolutionized astronomy and paved the way for the acceptance of the Copernican heliocentric system,but his advocacy of that system eventually resulted in an Inquisition process against him." — britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/224058/Galileo

Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 to 1543,"proposed that the planets have the Sun as the fixed point to which their motions are to be referred;that the Earth is a planet which, besides orbiting the Sun annually, also turns once daily on its own axis;and that very slow, long-term changes in the direction of this axis account for the precession of the equinoxes.This representation of the heavens is usually called the heliocentric, or 'Sun-centred' system ..."— britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/136591/Nicolaus-Copernicus

How long is forever? 15 billion years?These Forever Stamps, courtesy of USPS, commemorate building a nation in our little slice of time, on the strength of labor.Some of these images are attributed to Lewis Wickes Hine ( 1874 to 1940 ) who is quoted as saying,"There are two things I wanted to do. I wanted to show the things that had to be corrected. I wanted to show the things that had to be appreciated."